SIMMONS'sNORFOLK DIRECTORY
CONTAINING
The Notes, Occupations, and Places of Abode of the Inhabitants, Arranged
in
Alphabetical Order
Also

A
REGISTER

of
the
Borough Corporations, and Common Council; Extracts from sundry Ordinances
respecting the Police; Court days, Public Officers and Notaries,
Companies, Lodges, &c.

with

An
account of the Post Office, Establishment; Arrival and Departure of the
Mails; Rates of Postage,—of Wharfage and Storage; Fees of the Custom
House; Rates of Coin; Useful Tables; Regulations of the Office of Discount
and Deposit; Stamp Duties; an abridged Almanac, and a table of the Sun's
Declination for every Day in the Year:

To
which is Added,

List
of the STREETS, LANES, and WHARVES in the Borough.

Augustus
C. Jordan, Printer, Norfolk,
MDCCCI.

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Advertisement.

To
a Publication of this Nature, undertaken according to usual custom, and
depending solely on the sale of the Work for profit, any preface would
be deemed unnecessary—but in setting forth the present one,
the Compiler would justly merit the charge of ingratitude, were he to
omit acknowledging in high terms, the public spirit of the inhabitants,
and their liberal patronage to him in the undertaking.

Tho'
the expence incurred in lettering the names of the streets, and numbering
the houses, has been considerable, yet the subscriber hopes that the sale
of the Directory, with the generous support already afforded him, will
not only defray all charges, but compensate him for his trouble.

The
constant ingress of new inhabitants to this growing commercial town, with
the frequent removals of several of the citizens, will require the publication
of a Directory annually; but which in future will be supported without
recurring to a subscription.

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The
subscriber is fully apprised that in a publication like this, particularly
as the Directory was nearly completed before the houses were numbered,
some errors may have been made, but from the care he has taken to have
them avoided, he trusts they will, if any, be but few; for which he solicits,
and doubts not, the indulgence of a generous Public.

C.
H. Simmons.

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At
a HUSTINGS COURT, continued and held
the 27th Day of JANUARY, 1801.

CHARLES
H. SIMMONS having, in a letter addressed to the court, dated the 24th
instant, represented to them that he is about to compile and publish a
Directory, in which he proposes to designate the places of abode of the
inhabitants of this borough, and solicits the countenance and patronage
of the court, setting forth that it would greatly aid and facilitate the
undertaking by being duly authorized to number the buildings—The
court taking the same into consideration this 27th day of January, do
by virtue of the authority vested in them by the charter of the borough,
authorise and allow the said G. H. Simmons to proceed to enumerate the
buildings respectively within the corporation, by progressive numbers,
and to affix the same thereto: and also to designate the streets and public
lanes.

And
moreover, the court being desirous that the most beneficial effects should
result to the citizens do direct that the foregoing order be transmitted
to the common hall, with a request to that honorable body, that they would
make provision to defray the expence of employing an able and skilful
surveyor, to take and return to this court, an accurate plan of this borough,
that the same being duly approved and deposited in the clerk's office,
may become a part of the records, agreeably to an act of assembly.

A
REGISTER OF THE BOROUGH CORPORATION.
Extracts from sundry ordinances, necessary to be generally known.
Public officers, notaries, companies, Lodges, Etc.
with
An account of the Post Office, and other establishments; fees of the
Custom House—rates of wharfage and storage
in the Borough, &c., &c., &c.

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COPY
OF THE CHARTER OF NORFOLK BOROUGH.
Incorporated the 15th September, 1736.

George
the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain,
France, Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

To
all and singular our faithful subjects, greetings. WHEREAS a healthful
and pleasant place, commodious for trade and navigation, by an act of
the General Assem- [43] bly of our colony and dominion of Virginia,
hath been appointed and laid out for a town, called by the name of Norfolk,
which place of late years, especially during the administration of our
trusty and well-beloved William Gooch, Esq., our Lieutenant of our said
colony, hath very greatly increased in number of its inhabitants and
buildings, in so much that the said town not being capable of containing
all such persons as have resorted thereto, divers of our loving subjects
have seated themselves and families upon the adjoining lands, so far
as to a place called the Town Bridge. Know, Ye, That we being willing
to encourage all our good and faithful subjects, as well at present
residing and inhabiting, as shall or may hereafter reside and inhabit
within the said town of Norfolk and the places thereunto adjoining,
so far as the Town Bridge, at the instance and petition of divers of
our dutiful and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the said town and places
adjacent, of our royal grace, good will, certain knowledge, and meer
motion, with the advice of our council of our said colony, have constituted
and erected, and by these our Letters Patent do constitute and erect
the said town of Norfolk, and the said parts thereunto adjoining so
far as said bridge, a Borough, by the name of the Borough of Norfolk;
and for us our heirs and successors do by these presents grant to the
inhabitants of the said borough and of parts adjacent, that the said
borough and of the parts adjacent, shall be a borough incorporate, consisting
of a mayor, one person learned in the law, stiled and bearing the office
of recorder of the said borough, eight aldermen, and sixteen other persons
to be common-councilmen of the said borough; which said mayor, recorder,
aldermen, and common-councilmen, shall be a body incorporate, and one
community forever, in right and in fact; and by the name of mayor, recorder,
aldermen, and common-council of the borough of Norfolk, and as such,
shall be persons able and capable in law to acquire, purchase, and receive
manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments not exceeding One Thousand
Pounds sterling [45] per annum, and all goods and chattels whatsoever,
to have, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors for ever. And
also that they the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common-council,
by the same name, plead and be impleaded, prosecute and defend, answer
and be answered in all and singular, causes, complaints, actions real
personal and mixt, of what kind or nature soever, in all courts and
places, and before all judges and justices whatsoever; and also that
the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common-council, and their successors,
shall have one common seal, to be used for their causes and business;
and that it shall be lawful for them the said mayor, recorder, aldermen
and common-council, and their successors, their said seal at their pleasure
to break, change, and make anew from time to time as to them shall seem
expedient: And we will, and by these presents declare, name, and appoint
Samuel Boush, gentleman, to be mayor of the said borough for the year
ensuing, and afterwards until the day for electing a mayor herein after
appointed; and Sir John Randolph, knight, to be recorder for the said
borough; and George Newton, Samuel Boush the younger; John Hutchins,
Robert Tucker, John Taylor, Samuel Smith the younger, James Ivey, &
Alexander Campbell, gents. inhabitants of the said borough, to be aldermen
thereof for so long time as they shall well behave themselves in their
respective offices and places: and we further order and direct, that
the said mayor, recorder and alderman, before they shall enter into
or upon the execution of the said offices, shall take the several oaths
by law appointed for the security of our person and government, and
subscribe the same, and the oath by our said lieutenant-governor, appointed
to be taken by the mayor, recorder, and alderman of the said borough,
and subscribe the teste,, which oath shall be administered to them by
our said lieutenant-governor, or be by such person or persons as he
shall authorise and appoint to administer the same.

And
we grant that the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, or the major part
of them, shall elect and choose [46] other of the most sufficient inhabitants
of the said borough being freemen thereof, to be of the common-council
of the said borough, for so long a time as they shall well behave themselves
in their respective places. And to perpetuate the succession of the
said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common-councilmen in all time to
come, We Do Grant, that for the future that they shall assemble in some
convenient place in said borough upon the feast day of St. John the
Baptist, in every year; and shall elect and choose by the major vote
of such of them as shall be then present, one other of the aldermen
of the said borough, for the time being, to be mayor of the said borough
for the ensuing year. And upon death, removal, or resignation of the
said mayor, recorder, or aldermen, or any of them, or within one month
after such respective death or deaths, removal or removals, resignation
or resignations, the rest of the said aldermen, together with the said
mayor and recorder, if they should be living, and common-councilmen,
or the major part of them, shall at a time by them to be appointed,
meet within the said borough and elect and nominate some other person
or persons to be mayor, recorder, and aldermen of the said borough,
in the place and places of such person or persons so diseased or removed,
as the case shall require, so as the said mayor so to be elected and
nominated, be at the time of such election and nomination actually one
of the aldermen of the said borough; and so as the said recorder so
to be elected and nominated, be a person learned in the law; and so
as the alderman and aldermen so elected and nominated, at the time of
such election and nomination, to actually of the common-council of the
said borough: and the said mayor, recorder, alderman and aldermen so
elected and nominated, shall at the time and place of election take
the several oaths above-mentioned, and subscribe the same, and subscribe
the test; which oath the said mayor, recorder, or any one of the aldermen
may, and is hereby required to administer; and shall then likewise,
or on the said feast of St. John the Baptist, out of, and from among
the inhabitants and free- [47] holders of the said borough, elect and
nominate so many persons to be of the common-council as shall be wanting
to make up the full number of sixteen persons, and that the persons
hereby appointed and named, or hereafter to be elected and nominated
mayor, recorder, and aldermen, be justices of the peace within the said
borough, the precincts and liberties thereof, and directors of the buildings
and street in the said borough; and that they or any three of them,
whereof the mayor or recorder for the time being shall always be one,
shall have within the said borough and the precincts and liberties thereof,
full power and authority to make constables, surveyors of the highways,
and other necessary officers; and to rule, order and govern the inhabitants,
and the buildings, and the streets thereof, as justices of the peace,
and directors are or shall be authorised to do; and shall have power
and may execute all the laws, ordinances and statutes in that behalf
made, as fully and amply as if they were authorised thereto by express
commission, willing and commanding that no other justices of the peace
or quorum within our said colony do at any time hereafter take upon
them, or any of them, to execute the office of a justice of the peace
within the said borough or precinct thereof, in any cause, matter or
thing hereby declared to be cognizable by the said mayor, recorder,
and aldermen, notwithstanding any commission at large authorising them
thereunto, saving always the authority and jurisdiction of our justices
of the peace of our county of Norfolk; nor at any time hereafter to
be assigned during the time of their holding their courts in the said
borough, saving also to all and every other judges, justices, and officers
all such rights, powers, jurisdictions and authorities granted, or which
shall be granted to them or any of them, by any statute or any act of
assembly of this colony.

AND
further, We will grant unto the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common-councilmen
of the said borough for the time being, full power and authority to
erect [48] work-houses, houses of correction, and prisons within the
said borough, and to make order, and appoint such bye-laws, rules and
ordinances for the regulation and good government of the trade and other
matters, exingencies and things, within the said borough and precincts,
as to them or the major part of them shall seem meet, and to be consonant
to reason and justice, and not contrary but as near as may conveniently
be agreeable to the laws, acts of assembly, and statutes now in force;
which said bye laws, rules, and ordinances shall be observed, kept and
performed by all manner of persons trading or residing within the said
borough, under such reasonable pains, penalties and forfeitures as shall
be imposed by the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common-councilmen,
or the major part of them then assembled, from time to time, not exceeding
Forty Shillings current money of Virginia; which said pains, penalties,
and forfeitures shall be levied by distress and sale of the goods of
the person offending, to be employed for the public benefit of the said
borough, at their discretion.

AND
FURTHER, We have given and granted unto the said mayor, recorder, aldermen,
and common-council of the said borough, and to their successors forever,
and to all freeholders of the said borough owning half a lot of land
with a house built thereon according to law, and to all persons actually
residing and inhabiting in the said borough, and having a visible estate
of the value of Fifty Pounds current money, at the least; and all persons
who hereafter shall serve five years to any trade within the said borough,
and shall after the expiration of their time of service be actually
house-keepers and inhabitants in the said borough; and for us and our
successors, by these presents, do give and grant to them full powers
and absolute authority to name, elect, and send one burgess out of the
inhabitants actually residing and being within the said borough; which
burgess elected shall have a freehold or other vis- [49] ible estate
within the said borough, of the value of Two Hundred Pounds sterling,
and if such person so elected be not actually residing within the said
borough, then he shall have a freehold or other visible estate of the
value of Five Hundred Pounds sterling, to be present, fit and vote in
house of burgesses of our said colony of Virginia, and there to do and
consent to those things which by the common council of our said colony
shall happen to be ordained. And do hereby grant and order that writ
or writs of election of a burgess for the said borough shall be issued
and sent to the said mayor, recorder, and aldermen, for the time being,
when and so often as a general assembly shall be called, or occasion
shall require:—PROVIDED ALWAYS, that all such electors and voters
shall and do, and before they be admitted to give their vote at such
election, make oath of their freehold, and of the value of their personal
estate, if the candidates or other electors shall require the same to
be done.

AND
FURTHER, We, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion,
for us, our heirs and successors, by these presents give and grant to
the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common-council of the said borough,
and to their successors for ever, full and free licence, power and authority,
to have, hold and keep three markets weekly in some convenient place
in the said borough, to be by them appointed (that is to say) on every
Tuesday, on every Thursday, and on every Saturday in the week; and also
two fairs yearly, to be held and kept on the first Monday in October,
and on the first Monday in April, in every year, for the sale and vending
all manner of cattle, victuals, provision, goods, wares and merchandize
whatsoever, on which fair days, and on two days next before, and two
days next after each of the said fair days, all persons coming to, or
being at the said fairs, together with [50] their cattle, goods and
merchandize, shall be exempted and privileged from all arrests, attachments,
or executions, except for toll and process from the court of Pipowder;
and that the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common-council, and
their successors for ever, shall have power to set such reasonable toll
on all such cattle, goods, wares and merchandize, and other commodities,
as shall be sold in the said markets and fairs respectively as shall
be by them thought reasonable, not exceeding Six pence on every beast,
and Three Pence on every hog, and the twentieth part of the value of
any other commodity sold therein:—PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the toll
to be rated and assessed on the cattle & goods so sold, which shall
be belonging to the men of the said borough; and that the said mayor,
recorder and aldermen, or any three of them, of which the mayor or recorder
shall be one, shall and may hold a court of Pipowder, during the time
of the said fairs, for hearing and determining all controversies, suits
and quarrels, that may arise and happen therein, according to the usual
and legal courses in the like cases in England; and we do, for us and
our successors, give and grant to the said mayor, recorder, aldermen
and common-council, and to their successors for ever, all and every
the toll, profits and perquisites arising, due and incident from or
to the said markets, fairs, and courts, of Pipowder, to be and by them,
or the major part of them, used, laid out and expended for the benefit
and advantage of the said borough.

AND
FURTHER, We, do grant, for us and our successors, that the said mayor,
recorder, and aldermen, and their successors, or any four or more of
them, of which the said mayor, recorder, of the last preceding mayor,
or senior alderman shall be one, shall hold a court of Hustings once
in every month within the said borough, of [51] which court they are
hereby empowered to appoint and make clerks and other proper officers
from time to time as there shall be occasion, and to settle and allow
reasonable fees, not exceeding the fees now settled and allowed in our
county courts of our said colony; and shall have jurisdiction and hold
plea of trespass and ejectment, and of all writs of dower for any lands
and tenements within the said borough, and all other actions personal
and mixed, arising with the said borough, precincts, and liberties thereof;
and as a court of record, give judgment and award executions thereon,
according to the laws and statutes of England, and of the said colony;
PROVIDED the demand in the said action personal and mixed do not exceed
Twenty Pound current money, or four thousand pounds of tobacco. And
provided, nevertheless, that any party or parties, plaintiff or defendant,
shall be at liberty to appeal from the judgment of the said court of
Hustings to the general court, or to obtain a writ of error, or supersedious
to such judgment returnable to the said general court, under such limitations,
rules and orders as are already prescribed and set down by the act of
assembly, or rules of the said general court, for obtaining and prosecuting
appeals, writs of error, and supersedious, from the judgment of the
county courts to the general court.

IN
WITNESS whereof we have caused these our letters to be made PATENT;
witness our trusty and well-beloved WILLIAM GOOCH, esquire, our lieutenant-governor,
and commander in chief of our said colony and dominion of Virginia,
at Williamsburg, under the seal of our said colony the fifteenth day
of September, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six in the tenth
year of our reign.